Tracy Peterson
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Well, NTSC and HD will have different color values. That’s normal.
For the downconversion, are you setting your monitor to anamorphic (16:9) playback? Most monitors i’ve seen play NTSC at 4:3 as a default, it’s not your intensity card. NTSC has the same number of pixels in 4:3 or 16:9, so you need to tell the monitor to stretch it back to the aspect you are expecting.
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I edit with my nose. It’s my preferred method. Usually when my coffee wears off.
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This has happened to me on a couple different machines and continues to happen.
Unfortunately, in my experience, BMD support says “it’s a small number of users experiencing it” when they don’t know and don’t care. Basically, get over asking support for anything.
If anything happens, some programmer will find the bug in a future rev and maybe fix it to cover his own butt, because it certainly won’t be listed as a fix in the release notes and support won’t spend the time of day to properly support their products. On our end, because BMD doesn’t document fixes properly, the problem will just stop happening and we will be lucky if they don’t pull some very important feature that we use all the time in order to fix the small problem.
One more thing, they don’t seem to want to tell us about a size unlocked mediaexpress. There’s lots of requests for info here, but no answers.
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Make sure you have it set to 1080i 59.94 on the blackmagic design control panel as well. You might want to try the capture dialogue in your editing program as well.
Another option is that sometimes I’ve found that it needs to recognize signal before showing up on screen, changing resolutions a bit might help.
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When using a DeckLink for capture you need to set FCP up with a “Easy Setting” that works for your camera output signal. Basically whatever is hooked up to that input HD-SDI on the decklink.
After a little research, I have this advice: check to make sure HD-SDI output is enabled in the menu as only one output is enabled at a time and you’ll need to set FCP up on a 720p59.94 setting. That is apparently the only signal that the RED will output.
You may want to hook up a monitor to the HD-SDI that can do that setting on the pass through to make sure signal there.
Good luck.
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The only thing you need is an older SD card to plug into the camera, with the firmware on it. Again follow the instructions and you should be fine. The bigger cards should all work fine on all cameras with the P2 logo.
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Thanks for pointing this out, I just grabbed 3.0 and on my DeckLink Extreme HD it is doing the same hustle for the input size. I don’t know if it is a bug with Adobe or with BlackMagic Drivers.
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I think you may want to use After Effects for something like this, more than Premiere. While premiere will work, AE is more suited to “Frame Stacks” like your time lapse photo output. You could just load your stack into a composition of 1080p and then frame the shot where you want it. AE supports cameras as well, so you could simply create a camera and move it, rather than the footage. Remember that you won’t be able to zoom further than the resolution of your final comp without losing data so 720P might even be better, allowing for more zoom (it would be a smaller fraction of the higher resolution).
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A sad truth is that the recording contains a lot of this tone you are seeking and it’s hard to correct in some cases with filters. I agree with the EQ suggestion, to a point. If the tinny/coldness is coming from echo, it’s hard to filter out.
One trick I’ve learned with doing VO just about anywhere is to record it with a towel or blanket hanging about two feet in front of the speaker. Speaking directly into it, it will kill a lot of the reflected sound and prevent much of it from leaking back into the room, giving it a warm tone. Also, don’t forget to equalize it on the way into the recording device.
Tracy Peterson
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